Choose & Mix is a small restaurant in a nondescript strip of stores, next to a convenience store and laundromat. With only two tables, we had to take two stools at a high counter (not our favorite way to eat), but the food was worth...it.
We started with fried pork dumplings, six light and crispy dumplings with a soy-based dipping sauce. They were an excellent start.
Seeing the size of the bibimbap bowls, we decided to split one. We chose the brown rice; added onions, broccoli, zucchini, carrots and mushrooms; then chose beef; and, after sampling several sauces, chose the teriyaki, but asked for the soy lemon sauce at the table. We decided to try the hot stone bowl (which we were told would crisp up the rice) and top with fried egg. And it was just $9.41, plus $1 for the hot bowl and 50 cents for the egg.
Being lunch, the meal came with miso soup (which may have been good, but neither of us like miso soup) and a drink.
Wow. What great flavor. The yolk of the egg helped enrich the flavor. And the soy lemon added some tang to the sweet teriyaki. The vegetables were cooked quick enough to be left intact. The only thing that we would change next time is to not bother with the stone bowl. While it kept the rice warm, we didn't leave the food in one place long enough to get crispy and liked it just as well.
Next time we might try the bulgogi ($12.95), or maybe choose the sweet potato noodles as the base. Or we might just try the same again because it was excellent.More